
“Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.”
Lennox Lewis (From his Twitter account)
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.”
Lennox Lewis (From his Twitter account)
Sunni Hadith
Source: Ahmad, al-Musnad 14:331 #18859, al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak 4:421-422, al-Tabarani, al-Mu`jam al-Kabir 2:38 #1216, al-Haythami 6:218-219, al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir 2:81 and al-Saghir 1:306, Ibn `Abd al-Barr, al-Isti`ab 8:170, al-Suyuti, al-Jami` al-Saghir http://www.sunnah.org/msaec/articles/Constantinople.htm
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=XAYXAQAAIAAJ] and in [Emiralioglu, Pinar, Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, 2014, Ashgate Publishing, 978-1-4724-1533-2, 61, https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot2HQMwah_gC&pg=PA61]. According with Emiralioglu, it is "disputable if the hadith is accurate (sahih)".
“One of the lessons of age,” he said softly. “Do not waste what time you have in regret.”
Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 38 (p. 551)
They just looked at me. What I was saying was really incomprehensible to them.
Source: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 22 (p. 388)
“Private armies, and for that matter private air forces- are expensive, wasteful, and unnecessary.”
Source: Defeat Into Victory (1961), p. 457